Data Storage Planning Service

It is imperative that you have a plan in place that identifies how much data storage you need in the short, medium and long term, as well as your optimal storage types and most favourable data storage locations.

With the growth in the amount of data you generate, your data storage infrastructure planning and subsequent decisions are incredibly important.

Our friendly team of experienced data storage engineers will work closely with you to ensure that you maximise your storage utilisation by finding the ideal split between your storage needs for your various business applications, as well as your user storage needs.

It is particularly important that you plan for your storage needs when you have a virtualised infrastructure as your needs can scale up and down quickly as your demands change. As such, having virtual machines in your estate makes planning harder and therefore more important.

Our data storage team will profile your capacity, throughput and I/O loads, which will help you understand and implement protocols, redundancy protection and array features to meet your needs. They will also advise on setting up storage tiering and warning thresholds to ensure that you are aware when performance will become constrained based on your workload and applications.

Our knowledgeable team will help plan for your data deduplication, as well as advise whether you can thin provision your storage, where your storage is only allocated when needed rather than being allocated upfront.

Benefits of our Data Storage Planning Service:

By effective planning your data storage requirements and set up, you will benefit from:

Being able to determine the perfect amount of storage for your needs.

Not investing too many resources too soon, so that you can take advantage of reduced disk prices at a later date.

Better understanding your storage needs and where you generate the most data as a business.

Making storage more than a mere afterthought.

Performance improvements as you never run too close to your minimums, ensuring less operating system and application issues.

Being able to utilise the most cost-effective type of data media for your data type.

Ensuring that you know where all of your data is so that you can put the right backup processes in place.

Being able to forecast costs and future spending.

Having a benchmark that you can compare with at a later date.

Knowing that you are following industry best practice.

Having access to a friendly team of experienced professionals who are always on hand to help you with your data storage.